Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People

Overview

“In this lesson you will see how to bring characters to life by making them act. To do this, we will start to look at the actions they do and focus on everyday actions so that the character starts to move.”

In this video lesson Diego & Sebastian Ramírez Jacinto addresses the topic: The power of gesture, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People. Learn to design unique characters with our method, drawing inspiration from real life and capturing shapes and gestures..

Partial transcription of the video

“So far we have drawn static characters, but we have come to what I think is the most important lesson What can you take away from this course? and it is to give life to your characters. How do we do this? Using the Gestur. The Gestur is basically the gestures, the action, the acting that a character presents. We are talking about his performance, we are talking about his performance. To find the life of a character it is important that we take several things into consideration. When observing we are going to look for the action that the character presents, the direction you are going or the...”

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Course summary for: Sketchbook: Creating Characters Based on Real People

• Level: Beginner
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• 3844 students
• 5 units
• 14 lessons (2h 28m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Character Design, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Sketching